Fired up over the Gaspee incident

Posted
Tuesday, June 11, 2019 12:30 pm

Mayor Joseph Solomon, with assistance from the Gaspee Days Committee and Harbormaster Jeff Baris, set an effigy of the Gaspee on fire Sunday afternoon in Pawtuxet Cove to close out the 54th annual celebration of the burning of the dreaded British revenue schooner on June 9, 1772. To salute the occasion, the Pawtuxet Rangers and the Kingston Reds fired their cannons from the colonial encampment in Pawtuxet Cove. (Warwick Beacon photos)

John Decarlo STABBING Five people have been charged in connection with an early-morning incident at a Warwick establishment that left two people with stab wounds. According to a statement from Warwick Police, officers responded to a report of a